Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG for -mregparm=3

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:25:06PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:35:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >...
> > I think the popular modules like nvidia or ATI could be fixed 
> > relatively easily.  They usually consist of a glue layer with source and a 
> > binary blob that is only called from the glue layer. Basically all you 
> > have to do is the mark the prototypes for the binary blob in the glue layer
> > as "asmlinkage". In addition this can be done without any ifdefs
> > because asmlinkage does the right thing on a non regparm kernel.
> > 
> > Of course true binary only modules without glue layer would be more
> > difficult, but for those the vendors just have to recompile. Conceivable
> > it would be possible to write a glue layer even for them.
> >...
> 
> Did I miss Linus announcing a stable ABI between kernel versions?
> 
> If some binary module vendor tries to support more than one kernel
> version it's his problem - this is nothing that is officially supported
> by the Linux kernel.

agreed.

this is the sort of stuff that shouldn't be a config option, it
exercises new paths in gcc as well, _all_ the userbase has to use it, or
it's not worth the risk/pain IMHO.
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